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We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country. Mathew Staver
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We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if the opposition wants that, so be it. We are ready. Ivica Dacic
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There are clerics who are very moderate and who understand what the current situation demands, and there are clerics who have political agendas and who marshal forces for their own gain. Those are the dangerous ones. Joost Hiltermann
agendas aim
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. Benazir Bhutto
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He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us. Nia Long
agenda approach commission unless
Unless the commission has a dramatically different agenda and a dramatically different approach than the same tired, old, big-government liberalism, it'll be like the commissions we've had for 30 years. Newt Gingrich
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When there's no agenda and no real message what happens is you can't really have a message. You can put lipstick on a pig all you day long but it's still a pig, ... This Week. John Boehner
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We're going back to the table with the understanding that the top agenda item that we're going to be dealing with is going to be the whole issue of contracting out.
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Make no mistake the status quo in Sacramento is corporate control and the governor's agenda is not only to maintain corporate control but increase the grip of corporate special interests.
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We urge the President of India not to give his assent to this undemocratic legislation, and initiate public debate on the complex causes of conflict, rather than treat it as a law and order problem. Warren Christopher
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I think it has a snowball's chance in hell of getting royal assent by June. Perhaps the most compelling point that Mr. Reid makes is the glaring contrast between the Conservative platform promises and what we actually find in the Accountability Act. Pat Martin
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I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series of propositions. But it is still a mistake to suppose that it is assent to the propositions that makes you a believer. It is the feelings that are primary. Francis Spufford
assent beforehand man received subject
No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally. Marquis de Lafayette
assent chain dangerous handled sane
Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- . Emily Dickinson
bills way emergencies
Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great. Chris Chocola
bills married
I'm married, I'm monogamous, but I'm not dead, and Bill isn't either. Chirlane McCray
bills perfectly split
We split all the bills 50-50. So what? That's perfectly normal, isn't it? Guy Ritchie
bills computer made
I invented it, Bill made it famous. David Bradley
bills shows
Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do. Denis Leary
bills politician clinton
There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton. Ed Rollins
bills fancy reincarnation
Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce. Bernard Goldberg
bills shows
When you show up at a rally supporting a bill, you are supporting the bill. Charlie Dent
bills buttons position
You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.
building wells climbs
When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it. Alain Robert
build built existing next people roads walk
We want them to build next to the existing hospital. People who are are able to walk can walk to it and it's already got all the roads and the infrastructure that would have to be built at the new location.
build couple franchise
We want to try to build the franchise around Adam, Homer, Edwin and a couple of other guys.
build links london strong
We want to try and build very strong links between London and Beijing. Ken Livingstone
building-something building
...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something. David Sedaris
build built hated radio remember
Do you remember those AM radio kits you get as a kid, and you build your own AM radio? Well, I never actually built one. But I did get them as a gift, for, like, 3 Christmases in a row, and I hated them. Lucas Till
building difference game games guys last tired
The only difference between tonight's game and last night's game is that 40 guys were a little more tired tonight, and the building was different, ... All I know is that if we play 82 games like this, I'm going to die. Mark Parrish
building mode postal service throughout
The Postal Service really isn't in a building mode anymore, and that's throughout the whole country.
building capital covers electricity except expenses improvement needs regular school
The per-pupil (funding) covers everything a school needs ? electricity, water, all the expenses a regular school has ? except it doesn't cover capital improvement or building a new school.
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilized example expect message send society strong
We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody. John Wilson
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
dealing might serving stop
We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.
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We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.
deal might ready supposed systems understand whatever
We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.
dealing hierarchy might military properly
We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.
deal opportunity positives sanctions ten tournament understanding
The positives are closure. We're going into the Big Ten tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with. ... They can play without that stress.
deal egyptian palate pleasures strangle whom
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
deal earn employees exemplary great hard hard-work honor proud represents salute share team work
We are proud to earn this award. It represents a great deal of hard work for us, for our suppliers and for their suppliers. We salute our team of exemplary employees and suppliers, and share this honor with them.
deal later super
We started the deal and here they are 30-years later in the Super Bowl.
deals people valuable
There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future.
fall rain wind
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Charles Dickens
fall mind excess
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.
fall velocity vacuums
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
fall errors giving
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!
fall giving wife
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
fall errors common
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
fall passion world
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
fall scary house
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
forms objects suppress terror truth
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. Wole Soyinka
forms inside movies novels outside relation tend
There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world. Walter Kirn
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached. Ramakrishna
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Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship. Alice Morse Earle
forms horror itself themselves
Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
forms life
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
forms investment items looking position specific variety
We are looking at a variety of forms in which investment could take place. There are no specific items that I'm in a position to discuss.
forms future link
I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future. Andy Serkis
forms future readers varied
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. Chuck Palahniuk
gone certain rings
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? Charles Stross
gone
Your spikes have gone floppy, Darren Shan
gone tweet pretending
I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.
gone towns big-families
It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry. Cesar Romero
gone path reputation
Why sully the country's reputation when they've gone down this path only to back off at the end?
gone philosophy poet poets saturday sleeping window
Where is Philosophy sleeping this saturday afternoon? Are the philosophers already dead? Are the poets gone from the planet? I look through the window and all I see are advertisments.
gone teammates ups
When you've been teammates that long, you're going to go through some ups and downs. They've gone through some down times. Tim Purpura
gone thank
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. Logan Pearsall Smith
gone feels left
I feel it gone, yet know not when it left. William Shakespeare
hill match steep tennis
We were at triple-match point, now we are at double- match point, to use a tennis term, but we still have a steep hill to climb, Larry Walker
hill
When we got to the hill at the (American) Legion, that got to me, ... That was emotional.
hills inside name pick top whether
With the rovers we've actually been able to go look and pick the things we wanted to see whether it was up on top of hills or whether it was down inside the craters, you name it.
hill knew took
We knew what Jake was going through even before he took the hill for us, Brian Giles
hills race
Make no mistake. These are the steepest hills that we race in America.
hill identity moon professor says tribes whom
LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon inhabits. The Lunarians have been described by Lucian, Locke and other observers, but without much agreement. For example, Bragellos avers their anatomical identity with Man, but Professor Newcomb says they are more like the hill tribes of Vermont.
hill last looking turns
We're looking to get comfortably through April. As for May, we'll see. Last year, I made turns on this hill on May 15 on all-natural snow.
hills debacles happened
Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened. Barbara Mikulski
hills longer pay pushed running starting stronger training
We have really pushed them to get stronger on the hills and running longer distances. This race, in my mind, really showed that the training is starting to pay off handsomely.
house progress earth
Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.
house soul one-day
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored. Alan Paton
house suits fine
If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine. Alan Rickman
house together found
I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together. Alan Alda
house want pins
If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house. Al Sharpton
house clinton obligation
It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again. Chris Christie
house suffering majority
There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.
house sitting window
That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
house fool
but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
implement quality service using
When you're using quality of service to implement a priority-based system, someone is always losing.
implement progress work
Work was in progress to implement some of these protections.
implement improvement plans reflected teachers
There are things teachers implement that aren't reflected in the improvement plans or in scores, ... There are things they are doing right every day.
implement policies protective team vote
She was part of a team that did not implement policies that were protective of the right to vote. They made the right to vote more perilous.
implement
If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.
implement
I never try to show an actor what to do or what to say. He has to find out for himself. The role of the director is to guide him to that state, and then to implement it. Nicholas Ray
implement message return spending system takes wasteful
Wasteful spending is wasteful spending. The Republicans need to return to their message that being compassionate is doing what it takes to implement a system that works.
implement likely quickly
We're evaluating how quickly we can implement that. It's likely something that we will do but I can't say when.
implement people rely
I do not think this makes a lot of sense, and I think we should rely on the Park Service to implement the regulations that they have in place with the restrictions so that people can enjoy our parks.
introduced
When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman. Erich Leinsdorf
introduced marie notion
I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way. Kathryn Lasky
introduced last practiced seemed
Last year, we introduced the 3-4, but at the same time, we retained all our 4-3 calls, we practiced them. It was kind of always like, I don't know if it was inevitable, but it kind of seemed like that at times, that we were going to go back.
introduced music
I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from. Agnes Obel
introduced lecture policy shows video
We think the video shows a lecture on what their policy is. We would've introduced it if they hadn't.
introduced material nutrients slug
So there was this big slug of decaying material that introduced a big slug of nutrients into the system.
introduced round speaker speaks
The speaker is introduced at 7:30 and speaks for about 10 to 15 minutes. Then we have a round of prayer. Clark Johnson
introduced remember
It was very impressive. From the pulpit, he introduced everyone in the room. He has still been able to remember every name.
introduced object ordinance referendum
What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?
june million objective pleased positive primary progress toward users
We are pleased to be making such positive progress toward our primary objective of one million users by June 30, 2007,
june growing want
In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it. Denise Levertov
june water fear-of-death
Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water! Diane Duane
june
As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished. LeRoy Neiman
june homeless apartment
In June, 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, Brian Chesky
june inferno release
A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova. Dennis Ritchie
june since
Since June of 2004, we've funded 73 charities.
june degrees sitting
There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees. Alexander Skarsgard
june largely woods
We are largely out of the woods with the June meeting. Bill Kirby
marriage stars wife
My wife, the star I steer by. David McCullough
marriage party talking
As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse. Dave Barry
marriage remains engines
Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented. Caitlin Flanagan
marriage want married
When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married. Cary Grant
marriage mass potential terrorism weapons
The potential marriage of weapons of mass destruction with terrorism is everyone's nightmare. Condoleezza Rice
marriage men village
As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.
marriage carnival-rides carnivals
Marriage isn't a carnival ride. Aisha Tyler
marriage kids grandchildren
I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much. Bob Newhart
marriage rocks long
A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together. David Reuben
offshore oil resources vitally
The offshore oil is vitally important. We have to use the only resources that we have.
passed self
We let them self-destruct. They had a lot of passed balls, a lot of walks. They kind of folded on us.
passed
So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. John Bunyan
passed schedule
We did what we could with the schedule put before us. We passed every test. Jim Calhoun
passed wide
We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us. George Pataki
passed
My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.
passed ten work
I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name. Keith Coogan
passed problems
We didn't sense that there was any problems with the shoulder. He passed the physical. Craig Patrick
passed
I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.
passed people understood
Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him. Jermaine Jackson
period playing
We started out real flat. Once we got that first period out of the way, we started playing a little better.
periods dont-trust
Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period. Benjamin Walker
period unit
We bowled well as a unit which we have been doing for a period of time, Andrew Flintoff
period prolonged realistic
Vendors are going to have to be more realistic about prices. We are going to see a prolonged period of underperformance.
period short work
Like anything you do, it'll work for a short period of time. But he's so intelligent that he's going to keep working.
period september though
Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film. Timothy Bottoms
periods since younger
There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic. Kurt Angle
period personal time trying
Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth. Tim Finchem
periods theater deals
I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal. Asghar Farhadi
presented
Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there. Terry Wogan
presented
If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world. Derrick Jensen
presented talk
When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.
presented public
I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher. Chief Bender
presented
The plaque we presented was to commemorate the installation of the floor. O. Henry
presented wedding women
Women are presented with wedding gowns. That's all we can say right now.
presented shot time tried
That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.
presented together
They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,
presented series whether younger
The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do. Charlie Rose
received ruling weapon
Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.
received results
We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.
received zero
We have received zero pledges for this appeal, Jan Egeland
received saint value whatever whether work
Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does. Heber J. Grant
received
I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.
received
When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'
received totally
I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later. Horton Foote
received
Nothing is back yet. The IOC has not received the results.
received
I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.
royal watchers royal-family
I'm not a royal family watcher. Bill Nighy
royalties
Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards. Christo
royal causes mouths
The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble. Alastair Campbell
royal reason decline
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
royal fairness gracious
Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.
royal fellows
In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. John E. Walker
royal southern treated
They were grateful. And we were treated with royal southern hospitality.
royal geometry
Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.
royalty
He's a prig. He's royalty and he can't get over it.
votes
one of the most important votes we will take in this Congress. Dick Gephardt
votes
Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.
votes
I don't know that you have the votes here today.
votes
Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people. Charles Kennedy
votes
We'll have to see who has the votes if it comes to that. Pete Wilson
votes
To make up this many votes is probably very difficult. I'll see how I feel in a week. Richard Rossi
votes
We're overwhelmed by it. It was more votes than we expected.
votes
They're very solid. They had a lot of first-place votes this week. We know they are for real.
votes
You have to go where the votes are at.